South Korea has laid out a three-stage plan to bring stocks, bonds and funds onto tokenized infrastructure, with the final phase set to connect securities settlement to stablecoin-based onchain payments. Summary South Korea will begin expanding tokenized securities in February 2027, starting with selected funds, bonds, unlisted stocks and fractional investment products. The second phase

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded $730.9 million in net inflows in their strongest single trading session since mid-January, led by more than $450 million entering BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust. Summary U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $731 million in net inflows on Sept. 3, their strongest single trading day since January. BlackRock’s IBIT led the

Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks. Summary DeFi protocols have lost at least $1.3 billion to exploits in the first eight months of 2026, according to Forbes and CertiK, with compromised private keys overtaking smart contract bugs as the leading attack vector

Notional Finance may have suffered a $1.7 million exploit involving an escrow contract, blockchain investigators reported on Sept. 4. The reported losses include approximately $69,242 in DAI and $1.66 million in USDC. Summary Researchers reported $1.7 million in DAI and USDC leaving an escrow contract linked to Notional. The reported losses comprise $69,242 in DAI

Senator Cynthia Lummis has backed the CLARITY Act as a way to extend Wyoming’s digital-asset model across the United States before a Sept. 15 Senate vote requiring 60 votes to advance. Summary Lummis said Wyoming’s crypto laws offer a working model for federal regulation. The CLARITY Act would divide digital-asset oversight between the SEC and

Coinbase has filed two SEC notice registrations dated Sept. 1 as it works to bring single-stock perpetual contracts to the United States through its regulated derivatives exchange and brokerage. Summary Coinbase Derivatives filed Form 1-N to register as a security futures exchange. Coinbase Financial Markets submitted Form BD-N as a limited-purpose security futures broker-dealer. The

Paxos-issued USDG has launched natively on Mantle, adding the Ethereum layer-2 network to a stablecoin coalition with more than 150 partners. Summary USDG can now be minted directly on Mantle and used for DeFi liquidity and institutional settlement. Mantle has joined the Global Dollar Network and can share in rewards generated by USDG activity. USDG

BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo has supplied £4 million ($5.4 million), or about 75%, of the £5.3 million raised by Reform UK during the second quarter of 2026. Summary Ben Delo gave Reform UK £4 million through two donations made in April. Delo’s contributions accounted for about 75% of the party’s second-quarter funding. Reform UK raised

U.S. lawmakers have proposed permanently banning artificial superintelligence, pausing advanced AI development, and imposing prison terms of up to 20 years for violations. Summary The proposal would ban AI systems matching or exceeding human ability across many tasks. Advanced AI work would pause until a new federal regulator establishes safety and review rules. Individuals could

Binance has denied that a system or pricing failure caused more than $5 million in alleged trader losses as the AKEUSDT perpetual contract surged from about $0.0076 to nearly $0.045 on Sept. 3. Summary A trader claims that more than 30 funding-rate arbitrage positions lost over 5 million USDT. Binance says its pricing and liquidation